• Wednesday | 29 July 2026
FemtoAI Reports 5X Growth in H1 2026 as SPU AI Inference Platform Expands Across Samsung, Marshall and Edge AI Markets

FemtoAI, a leading AI inference platform and creator of the Sparse Processing Unit (SPU), announced 5X growth in 1H 2026, driven by engagements with Samsung and Marshall, new customer use cases and increased developer adoption. The demand for AI inference globally continues to outpace supply, and femtoAI is filling a gap. With 200K+ chips already deployed, and customers across data centre, enterp...

24 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Siemens to Acquire Defacto Technologies to Strengthen SoC Design Automation and Expand EDA Portfolio

Siemens announced that it has agreed to acquire Defacto Technologies, a privately held EDA software company active in the register-transfer level (RTL) design field focused on automated SoC design creation and integration. The acquisition further expands Siemens' EDA portfolio with capabilities that help customers manage growing SoC complexity through automated SoC design creation, earlier impleme...

23 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Mitsubishi Electric and Sony Semiconductor Form AI Vision Joint Venture for Smart Manufacturing

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation have signed a definitive agreement to establish a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the automation and digital transformation of manufacturing operations through advanced AI-powered vision technologies. As part of the collaboration, the two companies will create a new joint venture, Advanced Vision Solutions Co...

23 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Mach42 Raises £7 Million to Accelerate AI-Powered Analog Chip Design and Semiconductor Simulation

Mach42, an AI-driven company developing technology to accelerate analog circuit simulation for semiconductor design, has closed a £7m pre-series A funding round. The round was led by IP Group plc, the most active UK-based early-stage science and technology investor, alongside existing investors BGF and Foresight Group. The funding will enable Mach42 to scale its engineering and business dev...

22 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Infinity AI Raises US$15 Million to Accelerate AI Inference Software for Next-Generation Semiconductor Chips

Infinity.inc (Infinity Artificial Intelligence Institute), an early-stage AI infrastructure research company building the software layer that makes any AI chip inference-ready, announced it has raised $15 million in seed funding at a $100 million post-money valuation. The round included significant participation from Touring Capital, along with Principal VC, executives at major chip...

21 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Viettel to Invest US$1.3 Billion in Hanoi Semiconductor Fab as Vietnam Attracts US$588 Million in High-Tech Investment

Vietnam's capital is strengthening its position as a regional technology hub after Viettel committed US$1.3 billion to build a semiconductor manufacturing facility, a move that has helped Hanoi attract US$588 million in high-tech investment during the first half of the year. The planned chip manufacturing complex forms part of Vietnam's broader strategy to develop a domestic semiconductor industr...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Harel Increases Stake in Camtek as AI Chip Manufacturing Drives Demand for Semiconductor Inspection Equipment

Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services has expanded its holding in semiconductor inspection equipment supplier Camtek, reinforcing institutional confidence in the company's long-term growth prospects amid rising demand for advanced chip manufacturing technologies. According to a recent regulatory filing, Harel increased its stake by 38.2% during the first quarter, acquiring an addit...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Diodes to Acquire ElevATE Semiconductor in US$250 Million Deal

Presidio Investors (“Presidio”), a lower middle market private equity firm, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell ElevATE Semiconductor, Inc. (“ElevATE”) to Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD) in an all-cash transaction valued at $250 million. ElevATE, headquartered in San Diego, California, is a leading fabless designer of low-power, high-density...

15 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
TYLsemi Raises US$43 Million to Advance Chiplet Platform for AI Infrastructure

TYLsemiTM emerged from stealth and announced the closing of an oversubscribed $43 million early-stage funding round to accelerate the development of AI infrastructure. TYLsemi is the first chiplet platform company to deliver a full portfolio across IO, power delivery, and memory paired with a chiplet-based custom silicon design, integration and supply-chain ownership. This standards-based, pr...

15 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Narrow Gate Holding Expands Investments in AI, Semiconductors, Robotics and Energy Infrastructure

Narrow Gate Holding, a U.S.-based global investment firm, announced that it is expanding and deepening its investments across AI, robotics, semiconductors, and energy, the four sectors it identifies as the foundational infrastructure on which frontier technology will be built. The move reflects the firm's view that the decisive competition in AI is shifting away from software and model performanc...

13 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Arteris and IC-Link by imec Partner to Accelerate AI and High-Performance Computing Chip Development

Semiconductor system intellectual property (IP) provider Arteris has announced a collaboration with IC-Link by imec to accelerate the development of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) chips. The partnership combines Arteris' Network-on-Chip (NoC) interconnect IP with IC-Link by imec's application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) d...

10 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Apple Expands Broadcom Partnership with $30 Billion Investment to Manufacture Custom Silicon in the US

Apple® announced a new multiyear commitment with Broadcom to design and produce custom silicon components and cutting-edge wireless connectivity technologies for a wide range of Apple products. The new agreement, expected to exceed $30 billion, will lead to the production of more than 15 billion U.S.-made chips and support hundreds of American jobs. Apple has been working with the administrati...

9 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
POLYN Technology and ALTER TECHNOLOGY France Establish Neuromorphic Chip Validation Lab for AI Semiconductor Development

POLYN Technology, a developer of application-specific neuromorphic analog signal-processing (NASP™) chips, announced a partnership with ALTER TECHNOLOGY France to establish a joint chip-validation lab at ALTER’s Toulouse facilities. The new joint lab will provide POLYN with access to specialised electrical validation capabilities and an internationally renowned test environm...

8 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Solstice to Acquire Element Solutions in $14.5 Billion Deal to Expand AI, Semiconductor and Electronics Materials Business

Solstice Advanced Materials (Nasdaq: SOLS) ("Solstice" or the "Company") and Element Solutions (NYSE: ESI) ("Element") announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Solstice to acquire Element in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $14.5 billion, including the assumption of net debt. The transaction represents a significant acceleration of So...

7 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Kioxia and Sandisk Begin Production of 10th-Generation 3D NAND Flash Memory at Japan Fab to Meet AI Demand

Kioxia Corporation, a subsidiary of Kioxia Holdings Corporation (TOKYO: 285A) and Sandisk Corporation (Nasdaq: SNDK) today announced the start of production for their 10th-generation 3D Flash memory technology at Fab2 (K2) at the Kitakami Plant in Iwate Prefecture in Japan. The milestone comes as the companies continue to drive meaningful, multi-year bit growth to address the strong demand for the...

6 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
KoMiCo Invests CZK 914 Million in Czech Semiconductor Facility to Support TSMC's ESMC and Europe's Chip Expansion

South Korean semiconductor services company KoMiCo Co., Ltd. is strengthening its presence in Europe with the construction of a new semiconductor parts cleaning and coating facility in the Czech Republic, a move aimed at supporting the region's expanding semiconductor manufacturing sector. The company is investing approximately CZK 914.3 million (around KRW 65 billion) in the project, which will ...

3 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Infineon Opens €5 Billion Smart Power Semiconductor Fab in Dresden, Expands AI, Automotive and Power Chip Production

Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX) (OTCQX: IFNNY) opened the Smart Power Fab in Dresden several months ahead of schedule. The new plant, with an investment volume of five billion euros, is the largest single investment in Infineon's history and one of the largest investment projects in Germany, creating 1,000 new, direct jobs. The new fab doubles Infineon's manufacturing capacities at the Dr...

3 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Keysight and WIN Semiconductors Streamline GaN MMIC Design for First-Pass Tapeout Success

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) and WIN Semiconductors Corp. announced a joint MMIC design workflow that enables GaN MMIC design houses to achieve first-pass tapeout success. The workflow connects on-chip multi-domain simulation, 3D layout with verifications, and off-chip MMIC evaluation board design into a single environment. It supports the growing number of companies developing Ga...

1 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Tema ETFs and SemiAnalysis Partner to Launch Research-Driven Semiconductor and AI Infrastructure ETFs

Tema ETFs (“Tema”), a leader in institutional-quality and actively managed exchange-traded funds, announced an exclusive ETF partnership with SemiAnalysis, the leading independent research firm specialising in semiconductors and AI infrastructure, founded by Dylan Patel. Through the partnership, Tema and SemiAnalysis will launch the first suite of institutional-grade, research-driven ...

1 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
SEMI Forecasts Global 300mm Memory Fab Equipment Investment to Exceed $50 Billion in 2026

Worldwide 300mm fab equipment investment in the memory sector is projected to surpass $50 billion for the first time in 2026, rising 29% to $52 billion before increasing another 11% to $57 billion in 2027, SEMI reported in its latest 300mm Fab Outlook. The growth reflects continued AI-driven demand for advanced memory, supported by rising investment in AI infrastructure, data centers, an...

30 Jun 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS

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